Senior Software Engineer

Summary

Join Affirm's Capacity & Cloud Economics Engineering team as a Senior Software Engineer to optimize cloud infrastructure and distributed systems. You will own and deliver quarterly goals, lead engineers, collaborate with stakeholders, proactively identify and solve issues, foster a culture of quality, develop team talent, and assist with right-sizing workloads. The role involves collaborating with other teams, providing technical guidance, and optimizing production performance. Affirm offers a competitive compensation package including base pay, equity rewards, stipends, and comprehensive benefits.

Requirements

• You have 4+ years of experience designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale using languages like Python or Kotlin
• You have a track record of developing highly available distributed systems using technologies like AWS, MySQL and Kubernetes
• You are experienced in designing, developing and launching backend systems at scale technologies like Python, Kotlin, AWS, MySQL, and Kubernetes
• You have experience with load testing frameworks like Locust or a similar framework
• You have experience defining a technical plan for the delivery of a significant feature or system component with an elegant, simple and extensible design. You write high quality code that is easily understood and used by others
• You are proficient at making significant changes in a large code base, and have developed a suite of tools and practices that enable you and your team to do so safely
• Your experience demonstrates that you take ownership of your growth, proactively seeking feedback from your team, your manager, and your stakeholders
• You have strong verbal and written communication skills that support effective collaboration with our global engineering team

Responsibilities

• You will be responsible for owning and delivering quarterly goals for your team, leading engineers on your team through ambiguity to solve open-ended problems, and ensuring that everyone is supported throughout delivery
• You will support your peers and stakeholders in the product development lifecycle by collaborating with product management, design & analytics by participating in ideation, articulating technical constraints, and partnering on decisions that properly consider risks and trade-offs
• You will proactively identify project, process, technology or business issues, advocate for them, and lead in solving them
• You will support the operations and availability of your team’s artifacts by creating and monitoring metrics, escalating when needed, and supporting “keep the lights on” & on-call efforts
• You will foster a culture of quality and ownership on your team by setting or improving code review and design standards for your team, and advocating for them beyond your team through your writing and tech talks
• You will help develop talent on your team by providing feedback and guidance, and leading by example
• You will assist with right-sizing compute and data workloads to make our infrastructure highly available and cost-effective
• You will Collaborate with other infrastructure and product teams, providing technical guidance on capacity tuning to optimize production performance, and enabling effective performance testing

Benefits

• Health care coverage - Affirm covers all premiums for all levels of coverage for you and your dependents
• Flexible Spending Wallets - generous stipends for spending on Technology, Food, various Lifestyle needs, and family forming expenses
• Time off - competitive vacation and holiday schedules allowing you to take time off to rest and recharge
• ESPP - An employee stock purchase plan enabling you to buy shares of Affirm at a discount